Green Home Expo, Rebuilding Together events Saturday

Friday

Apr 29, 2011 at 8:11 PM

Two home-related events Saturday will attract lots of volunteers, potential homebuyers and homeowners.

Staff report

Two home-related events today will attract lots of volunteers, potential homebuyers and homeowners.More than 300 volunteers will fan out across Alachua County for Rebuilding Together North Central Florida — the fourth annual local construction event in which helpers from 24 local organizations will come together to make repairs on 15 Alachua County homes.Meantime, a Green Home Expo is set for today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Belmont community off County Road 241 north of Jonesville. The show, which is free and open to the public, will be held at a just-completed Net Zero Energy (all-solar) home in Belmont, at 2682 NW 147th St. The exhibition will feature some of the latest products designed to make homes more energy efficient.Rebuilding Together North Central Florida coincides with a campaign Saturday in which thousands of houses and community centers nationwide will be painted, repaired, weatherized and rehabbed as part of National Rebuilding Day, an event being staged by the national organization Rebuilding Together.Here in Gainesville, local volunteers will be working together to perform four roof replacements/repairs, five handicap accessibility improvements, two electrical repairs, three plumbing rehabs, seven floor replacements, seven bathroom reconstructions, three wheelchair ramps and many other projects.At the Green Home Expo in Belmont, which is being staged by Tommy Williams Homes, vendors will be on hand displaying everything from edible landscaping and wood floors made of reclaimed river-bottom trees to solar charges for mobile devices, solar and tankless water heaters, "sunset" windows and ceiling fans that are 300 percent more efficient than normal.

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